Today, Dolores Behnke's mind will race back 80 years and remember a telephone call.That's about all she recalls from the day her childhood took a terrible turn. Though the 5-year-old didn't know it, her mother would answer the ring to hear that her husband, a Peoria police detective, had been shot during a gun battle at a South Peoria barber shop.
Luciano: Remembering The Gun Battle That Killed A Peoria Detective
Phil Luciano, Journal Star
Wed, 11/13/2013 - 2:12pm
Sections: u.s.
Topics: Illinois Peoria County Peoria
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